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Hi,

I am from Munich, Germany and I am also missing the issue 359...

Seems a bit long now, even for all the way to europe.

Clear skies,
Thomas

Still nothing in Munich, Germany.

Hmm, I am usually quite annoyed when the Deutsche Post (German Postal Service) takes more than three or four days to deliver something...

Vic, I do not understand why you have any loyalties left with the involved parties that give you so much headache, though it is a nice character trait.

Perhaps an idea for 350. Just pack all the issues for Europe, take a plane and mail them from here. ;-)

I have some problems with the yahoo group. At work I can't log in and I am only at home during the weekend. Next week I will look for a hotel with wireless lan...

I think the interviewer was a little ironic with that 5 to 10 remark.

Theses 14 million unique visitors made me laugh. There is no technologie on earth that can give you this number. I think they mean vists, what is a totally different matter. It is like counting how often someone is reading any magazine.

14 million vists is quite good though, even if you propably have to split it for all the products of WotC.

It does not make me confident in their plans, how they think the internet works.

A good number is the active members in their forums and that is about the number of sold Dragons alone. Again this is active members for all their products. (Numbers are both about 40.000, go and research them yourselve ;-))

So they plan to get sme of their 14 million visitors (that they do not have) to use their DI. Even 1% would be 140.000 people and be great. Hey give me some of the stuff they are smoking, should dull the sense of loss.

Btw. go and checkout the great and wonderful generator of treasure they have, it is a great preview for their quality content.

We will need patience indeed until they have a DI worth noting.

Sorry I am a little frustrated with business decision makers...

I just remembered why it is good not to understand everything in a foreign language?

Just an idea:

I read somewhere, that we can download the (english) PDFs (for free), if we are subscribers to pathfinder. Hmm, as I read what I wrote again it seems to good to be true. But I definitly think there was something about handouts and maps and stuff. So why not adding a link to a german or spanish or french version of the text.

It does not even have to be a full translation. Translating the names of NSCs, places, maps and handouts would be a real time saver.

All the legal and copyright issues would be solved, as it would be your material on your site.

You could even integrate this as a community effort, further cutting costs by paying with some small pdf downloads and getting us to translate for you.

I think this would be unique and make your products more attractive for foreign markets.

Doug, Lawgiver,

thank you for making me feel young at age 30... ;-)

My favorite sign to tell if you are the oldest piece of stuff left:

You actually make a extensive set of rules (complete with levels) to determine if you are an old player.

*hehehe*

Btw. how does LARP enter the equation?

It arrived today in Munich, Germany. :-)

I will now go and look for a nice sunny place with a little shadow from a tree and enjoy my magazine.

Hi Jason and Stebehil,

please discuss this issue per email of even better per telephon. A webboard is the wrong media.

Jason, that is no way to address someone in writing. Please edit away the profanity (right word?).

There are indeed several good arguments as not to relative anything concerning murder in that proportion.

Clear skies,
Lautlos

I would say: Pick one. ;-)

I think it was without information due to the simple fact, that they do not have any. Like they said much is still in the flux, they even asked AGAIN, what they wanted the users to see.

I programm (Intra-)Net applications, if they are not already deep in developing they will have a mayor problem come September. ;-)

Have you read the question:

"Will the large quantity of regularly updated, excellent free content on the official website be affected by all this?"

Was this intended to be an ironic question? When I first looked at the WotC Site I kept serching for an hour before realising I had already seen their High-quality content.

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His name is Klinktak. He's a trickster. He's chaotic good. The other kobolds admire and fear his cleverness.
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This is a great idea, it gives the tribe different factions competing and makes them less one-dimensional evil.

Really? Just a dump of the webpage? This is so lame... especially considering they want to launch a huge new internet "thing" that replaces the magazines.

Gavgoyle wrote:

There has got to be a specialty market for that kind of thing...

Oh, there is.

Err, excuse me, is there still time to tell you, that we do not want to know?

Hmm, don't fear, help paizo collect money for the rights on DnD.

After the horrible, screaming, blazing, burning end...

;-)

Oh, yes of course, I confused this with another messageboard...

Lautlos (at) gmx (punkt auch) de

Rivendale... hmm, I can't remember the german word... :-) funny...

Of course the easy way isn't the best and I think in a different group it would not work. To mask it a little we pronounce everything in German, sounds very strange. ;-)

I would help with the translation, seems to be fun. Do you have a link?

Hmm, when I use an AP or something from the Forgotten Realms I usually don't translate the names.

My idea was to add a mystic language of the even more mystic old race (well english) and the habbit to name everything in this old language.

Ok, I know I am a litte lazy, but it works wonderful in my adventure group and we can use the english maps and material. I often use english or french to make communication with elfs or orcs difficult, but this get's complicated, if one of the players is actually better than you in this language.

Nevertheless I would be really interested in the email, that describes the voyage of the sea wyvern... Could you please send it to me Aureos.

Look at the bottom of this page. WotC have also the trademark for polyhedron... ;-)

Please do stop, I am getting hungry... mmmmh cabbage...

None in Munich, Germany. But I am hopeful, eight hours till the postman comes. :-)

Sorry, but I do not think 4e will sell many books, most of my friends stayed with 2e for they had so many of the old books and I wil definitly stay at 3e.

Hi everyone, I have just read the email announcement and I have to confess words fail my english vocabulary and I don't think many will understand if I rant in german.

So I will write instead, why I returned to Dungeons an Dragons after five years and did not select one of the many other good systems available in Europe. It was mainly two things, first the wish to return to Greyhawk where I took my first steps in roleplaying more than 10 years ago and second the huge amount of resources available for DnD.

Greyhawk turned out to be a little difficult, for WotC discontinued it and Living Greyhawk may work great in the USA, but where I life it just lacks the community. But I told myselve no problem, there are other worlds, let's just play.

As for the resources, I always was a fan of Dungeons and Dragons magazine and was finally able to afford a subscription. The quality of the online stuff is (as described above) in no way adequate to our magazines.

At the moment I am more than a little annoyed with WotC, there politics concerning licensing and products has in my eyes no aim beyond making money. So yes, let's stop giving them money, DnD won't die with WotC, perhaps Paizo can buy the rights for all of DnD in the end. ;-)

I found it above average for what it is. I do not get all the hate critics have dropped on it for failing to be something more than a buddy cop movie.

One of the PC had a Robin Hood complex. At the start of the adventure the GM said that the PC had been arrested since he was a thief.

The player replied "I'm not a thief, I am agent of social change"

I told a low level party that a thunderstorm had started just as they were rolling initiative. I marked a random spot on the map and said that was where lightning had struck. At the start of next turn, I rolled a couple dice behind the screen, counted out to another empty spot on the map near the fighter, marked it as the next strike, and asked the PC what type of armor he was wearing.

The player promptly pulled off his armor. He had a rough time of it after that.

At the top of every round I would roll more dice and then pretend that I was counting out a new location for the bolt. One of the players tried to metagame it by staying away from the last location.

At the very end of the battle the player who removed his armor asked how much damage the bolt would have done if it had hit. That was when they finally figured it out.

We got caught in an ambush and just barely fought free and ended up falling back to a castle to regroup/recover at which point we ended the session.
At the next game the GM is doing a recap and comes to that we "retreated to the castle" At which point one of the players come out of the kitchen with a pint of beer in his hand and claims that we did not retreat. He places his beer on the table and then proceeds to give a version of the battle which ends with us marching victoriously into the castle to the cheering of crowds. After a few prompts the player also adds in swooning virgins and the ringing of bells.

The host stares at him for a moment then reaches across the table and takes the beer.

I was playing a noble born character. He commissioned an item called personal portable valet. It was a rug with an unseen servant spell. When he stood on the rug the servant would dress/undress him and keep his armor brightly polished.

We were playing a group of goblins
One of PCs: I can speak the human language
GM after a glance at the character sheet: Just to level set you know maybe two dozen simple human words.
PC: I know more human words than I can count!

Sad day. He will be missed

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Because they already had a plan in place to meet the original mandate time frame. Why wait for a year and not go ahead with the cuts if you have already identified ways to do them and know that within a year you will have to do it anyways, and can experiment with temporary and part time workers to fill your labor needs instead of expensive full time employees?

Then your employer is on a path towards failure

Business 101 – Organizations that give the minimum pay get the minimum effort. Organizations that are only getting the minimum will eventually lose out to organizations that are getting the maximum. This is why I don’t mind being paid less than some of my direct reports and turn the occasional blind eye when I see my people bending the rules. It is the price I pay for having a team that out performs other teams within my division.
Your company can blame their problems on Obama, liberals or whatever but at the end of the day they will have only their own failure to look after their people to blame.

Wealth is EARNED! It is not something taken from those that earn it, and given to those that don't. Currently the top 10% of wage earners in the US pays nearly 70% of all taxes. The bottom 50% of wage earners pays less than 3% of all taxes. I think the distribution of wealth is plenty lopsided as is.

Later,

Mazra

Wealth can also be inherited so NO IT IS NOT ALWAYS EARNED!

As for the top 10% paying most taxes, what percent of the nation's wealth do they control? What percent of the total wages does that top 10% earn?

Mayors always cause my groups problem

A mayor asks the party barbarian to sign something. The barbarian refuses because if you sign pieces of paper people can say you are married.

In a different group, one PC had an off line conversation with the DM. Comes back into the room and says we need to stop by town hall. He walks into the town hall and tells the person that if the mayor could spare a few minutes he has a large contribution to make to the community. The rest of the party is stunned and asked what is going on. The PCs tells us not to worry this will only take a minute. The mayor shows up and asks who we represent. The PC looks at him and says we are from the society for term limits then hits him with a fireball.

The hate for the monk comes from the fact that its two main assets: Mobility and furry of blows, completely exclude each other. The class is all about mobility, but you... have to stand still to do any damage.

I wouldn't say exclude. When I play a monk, I first use the mobility to get close to the spell casters, archers, or provide flanking for the rogue and then I stand still for a round or two to deal damage.

The frustration is that often the monk's biggest contribution is not causing damage but preventing the other side from being able to inflict damage. I once spent most of a combat keeping an enemy archer grappled. Was not able to inflict much damage but kept him from using rapid shot on the party with a strength bow.